Casino Royale was published in 1953, the year John F Kennedy, Fleming's most famous admirer, became a senator, and the year Playboy was launched by Hugh Hefner, whose hedonistic, man-of-the-world philosophy Bond came to embody.
Antipholus of Syracuse is a brooding bachelor, given to reflections on identity; Antipholus of Ephesus is a hedonistic married man, given to buying bling and consorting with prostitutes.
Back in SATC's heyday, there were those who believed that the character of Samantha was modeled not on any female or female archetype, but on the fantasy of a hedonistic gay man.
The book's anchor is the story of Delfino Juarez, a young man from Veracruz, on Mexico's Caribbean coast, who finds riches as a construction worker in the hedonistic world of Mexico City and survives a harrowing trek across the U.S.-Mexico border, only to miss his village, which he finds forever altered by immigration.
At the time, in 2003, he was best known for "Queer as Folk," a 1999 series that chronicled the lives of a group of hedonistic gay men in Manchester with a frankness never shown before on mainstream television.
To what was then the burning question of the "double standard" — was a woman allowed to pursue men on the same hedonistic terms that men had traditionally been allowed to pursue women?
For me, on a cosmic level, the King's kitschy, tacky jumpsuits stand as a metaphor for the glitz and bling of today's hyper-consumerism, and Elvis, the ever-indulgent, universally recognized, hedonistic, self-polluted man, is an allegory for our ever-ailing planet.
My life-long guilt and repression, however, split my selfhood into wildly opposing polarities: the asexual, mysterious vault crammed with secrets to appease my Muslim family, and the hedonistic, sexually adventurous man who danced and drank and made mad, intense love.
Happy to break our necks like glass, We scorn life's hedonistic languor, And yell "Man, fuck it!
For instance, Socrates tried hard to educate Alcibiades, the hedonistic and ambitious young man whose guardian Pericles was Athens's greatest statesman.
But I'd rather chasteness be the problem than the kind of hypersexual, shallowly hedonistic image of gay men presented in so many television shows and movies past.
